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# 4125 A Glad Door to Adar
The Gemara teaches that when the month of Adar begins we increase our Simcha and happiness. How exactly is that reflected in practice? Do we do anything special or extra to comply with this mitzva? If...
# 4124 More Words on More Words
Hello Rav, Thank you so much for your timely response. I just want to clarify one issue please. You wrote "The accepted tradition in our days is that a person receiving an Aliya can recite the brocho...
# 4123 Enlightening the Candle Lighting
A woman began Bentching Licht (lighting Shabbos candles) early. Is this a Neder that her husband can annul so she can still do Melacha (work prohibited during Shabbos)?...
# 4122 A Tip on Scale Tipping
Kvod Harav Shlita, Being that there is a Issur (prohibition) of just owning and having in one’s possession false weights even if one never uses it to cheat or steal from anyone, is one forbidden to ...
# 4121 Uncharted Waters
A Bachur forgot to put Negel Vasser (water used for washing hands immediately after one wakes up from sleep) by his bed. May he ask a Cohen in the dorm to bring it to him, may he ask a Cohen to do bas...
# 4120 A Lifting Question
Dear Rav Shlita. Is there any problem to teach my teenager son to do Hagba’a (lifting) on a Sefer Torah, when it is not during Krias Hatorah? Is there a Bizayon (embarrassment) to the Torah to take it...
# 4119 Mind Your Read
An elderly and ill individual that only goes these days to shul for Mincha on Shabbos being taken on a wheelchair. This next Shabbos is Parshas Shekolim, since he will not be there in the morning when...
# 4118 How Can You Help
A person who is machmir not to carry even when there is an Eruv, should he make an exception to bring food to a sick home bound neighbor or rather let the neighbor fend for himself?...
# 4117 Speak for Yourself
Rav, If someone gets an aliyah at a shul with a different Nusach (tradition of pronunciation) than his, which version of the bracha should he say? For example, a Sephardi would add "et Torato" in the ...
# 4116 The Doctor's Doctor
When in need for saving a life of a sick person during Shabbos, and one has an equal choice of similar doctors to call, yet one is Jewish but not Frum and the other is a Gentile, which one should one ...
# 4115 A Matter of Life and Death
See prior question. We had recently a case of a terrible car accident in our city and besides 911, Hatzalah was also called since they are much faster. Sadly there was already a fatal casualty and we ...
# 4114 Cohen Can Save a Life
Is a Cohen permitted to join Hatzalah?...
# 4113 Cutting the Water Off
Is condensed steam water dripping from an air conditioner Muktza on Shabbos?...
# 4112 A Cut Ice Kiddush
Dear rabbi, this question may seem strange, but it is actually needed. At the Shabbath kiddush in shul we have young families with children attending. Many of them like during the deep freeze days to ...
# 4111 Clean as Fresh Snow
Someone walking to shul on snow during Shabbos had to adjust his boots. As he was also learning Torah while walking, he wanted to clean his hands by using the snow. Is that permitted?...
# 4110 Geeks Bearing Gifts?
On question above, since the Frum tenants in the building do not want to appear as being antagonistic to the united group of other residents seeking collaboration and unity for the benefit of all duri...
# 4109 A Free Ride but No Lift
A person who was Mekabel Shabbos early by saying it with his mouth and then while walking in the street was offered a ride and forgetfully accepted and entered the car, what should he do now?...
# 4108 Is this a Yom Tov? Really?
Can one join a building Valentine party to which some of the prospective Baalei Teshuva of our Kiruv group belong in order to be Mekarev them?...
# 4107 Let the Good Times Already Begin!
Is there a purpose for someone that requires a delicate medical intervention to wait until Chodesh Adar? Can it be done as needed after Tu Bishvat?...
# 4106 The Torah Honoring our Kedoshim
Recently someone donated a Sefer Torah in honor of the Kedoshim of the Holocaust. Before giving it to the shul he attends, the terror attack in Neve Yaakov on the Shabbos night (Friday Jan. 27) Parsha...